celebrity as its own reward

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The latest blog scandal — a young conservative partisan is hired to “balance” the Washington Post’s left-wing opinion pages (I haven’t found them yet?!), is discovered to have made a career as a serial plagiarist, and resigns, all within a week — calls to mind the post-modern nature of celebrity when one can be famous for being famous, not for having done anything. Where past generations looked to and took inspiration from Lindbergh, Peary, Earhart, we have Paris Hilton and Kato Kaelin.

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